Year 1947 Artist Andrew Wyeth | Type Tempera on hardboard Created 1947 | |
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Dimensions 47 cm × 70 cm (18 ⁄2 in × 27 ⁄16 in) Location National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Similar Andrew Wyeth artwork, Other artwork | ||
Wind from the Sea is a 1947 painting by the American artist Andrew Wyeth. It depict an open attic window as the wind blows the thin and tattered curtains into the room.
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The painting is housed at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. but is not on view.
Creation
The house belonged to Wyeth's friends Christina and Alvaro Olson who lived on the coast of Maine. The window was located in an abandoned room on the third floor. Christina Olson was a frequent model for Wyeth, and would famously appear in the painting Christina's World about a year later. When Wyeth saw the curtains caught in the wind he made a sketch on the same sheet of paper he had used to draw Olson.
Provenance
Clay Bartlett in Manchester, Vermont bought the painting from the artist in January 1947. It was sold to Charles Hill Morgan in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1952. In accordance with Morgan's will, it was on loan to the Mead Art Museum of Amherst College for 25 years following his death in 1984, after which it was donated it to the National Gallery of Art in 2009.